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I’m sitting at a table in the middle of the vast indoor auditorium at RDS Simmonscourt, after filing the latest copy on the Dublin euro constituency. In the distance George Hook is holding court at the Newstalk braodcasting stand watched by an audience of political hangers-on and anoraks. All of the Euro candidates are here.
There are tallies galore. With some of them you can read the runes. With others you would be better off reading tealeaves.
Let us get to the nub of what’s happening. (more…)
